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Don't forget socccer coaching great Tony DiCicco is from Connecticut and would be a good choice for a local team. He coached the Womens World Cup winning team with Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain.
 
I think Hartford has a chance (eventually). There is currently a RFP out to turn Dillon Stadium into a NASL site and my understanding is there is some interest both from owners and NASL in getting a team in Hartford.
 
Won't happen until a Hartford NASL or USL Pro team averages 10,000 fans regularly. MLS has bigger markets they want to expand to.
 
Dooley said:
I get your point. Similar to the NBA vs College Hoops debate. But even if they decided to go this route, there could be an upswing in college soccer popularity. If more and more parents won't allow their kids to play football (like many already don't anyway), then we could see a rise in popularity. Granted, it would take a LONG time to get anywhere near the popularity of football or basketball. But if TV ratings and fan zones are any measure (and the English Premier League ratings on NBC), then it might not be long before these P5 conference network deals begin to air a few soccer games. UCONN has a top soccer program. Just sayin'.
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We go through this every 4 years. Soccer is the next big thing!!! Look at the Ratings!!! Mommy won't let little Johnny play football!!!. I've been hearing this for almost 50 years. I remember back in the late '70s when the Cosmos were getting 78,000 plus for regular season NASL games that this was it here comes soccer!! There's more kids playing soccer than little league!!! Really. Where the hell are they?

Well here we are all these years later and what? Same crap. Every gets there panties in a bunch because the U.S.A can finally beat some third world African country and doing it with a roster half full of dual-citizens. Yipee!!

You of course realize that there are nearly as many concussions in soccer as there are in football. Taylor Twellman being a prime example being forced to retire at 28 due to multiple concussions. Also one of the keynote speakers at President Obama's concussion symposium was a young lady who had to stop playing soccer in high school due to concussion history.

Sorry but a sport where you play 90 minutes with nets the size of Nebraska and nobody scores will never be more than a once every four year curiosity, at best, for most of the country.


Also NCAA soccers apears regularly on both the B1G network and CBSSN along with the tournament on some form of ESPN.
 
bc puckett said:
We go through this every 4 years. Soccer is the next big thing!!! Look at the Ratings!!! Mommy won't let little Johnny play football!!!. I've been hearing this for almost 50 years. I remember back in the late '70s when the Cosmos were getting 78,000 plus for regular season NASL games that this was it here comes soccer!! There's more kids playing soccer than little league!!! Really. Where the hell are they?

Well here we are all these years later and what? Same crap. Every gets there panties in a bunch because the U.S.A can finally beat some third world African country and doing it with a roster half full of dual-citizens. Yipee!!

You of course realize that there are nearly as many concussions in soccer as there are in football. Taylor Twellman being a prime example being forced to retire at 28 due to multiple concussions. Also one of the keynote speakers at President Obama's concussion symposium was a young lady who had to stop playing soccer in high school due to concussion history.

Sorry but a sport where you play 90 minutes with nets the size of Nebraska and nobody scores will never be more than a once every four year curiosity, at best, for most of the country.


Also NCAA soccers apears regularly on both the B1G network and CBSSN along with the tournament on some form of ESPN.
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Clearly you haven't been paying attention. Do you also still think that smoking is healthy?
 
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bc puckett said:
We go through this every 4 years. Soccer is the next big thing!!! Look at the Ratings!!! Mommy won't let little Johnny play football!!!. I've been hearing this for almost 50 years. I remember back in the late '70s when the Cosmos were getting 78,000 plus for regular season NASL games that this was it here comes soccer!! There's more kids playing soccer than little league!!! Really. Where the hell are they?

Well here we are all these years later and what? Same crap. Every gets there panties in a bunch because the U.S.A can finally beat some third world African country and doing it with a roster half full of dual-citizens. Yipee!!

You of course realize that there are nearly as many concussions in soccer as there are in football. Taylor Twellman being a prime example being forced to retire at 28 due to multiple concussions. Also one of the keynote speakers at President Obama's concussion symposium was a young lady who had to stop playing soccer in high school due to concussion history.

Sorry but a sport where you play 90 minutes with nets the size of Nebraska and nobody scores will never be more than a once every four year curiosity, at best, for most of the country.


Also NCAA soccers apears regularly on both the B1G network and CBSSN along with the tournament on some form of ESPN.
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If you can't differentiate the current MLS from the 70's NASL then you are clearly in the deep-end here without any floaties.
 
bc puckett said:
We go through this every 4 years. Soccer is the next big thing!!! Look at the Ratings!!! Mommy won't let little Johnny play football!!!. I've been hearing this for almost 50 years. I remember back in the late '70s when the Cosmos were getting 78,000 plus for regular season NASL games that this was it here comes soccer!! There's more kids playing soccer than little league!!! Really. Where the hell are they?

Well here we are all these years later and what? Same crap. Every gets there panties in a bunch because the U.S.A can finally beat some third world African country and doing it with a roster half full of dual-citizens. Yipee!!

You of course realize that there are nearly as many concussions in soccer as there are in football. Taylor Twellman being a prime example being forced to retire at 28 due to multiple concussions. Also one of the keynote speakers at President Obama's concussion symposium was a young lady who had to stop playing soccer in high school due to concussion history.

Sorry but a sport where you play 90 minutes with nets the size of Nebraska and nobody scores will never be more than a once every four year curiosity, at best, for most of the country.


Also NCAA soccers apears regularly on both the B1G network and CBSSN along with the tournament on some form of ESPN.
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Well, thanks for that. I'll be sure to cancel your "Welcome to Ghana" travel package.
 
bc puckett said:
Did you stop beating your wife?
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That makes no sense. Do you have any clue as to how popular soccer is with young males, particular ones with actual bank accounts and vote with their wallets?

Your post is awesome because it shows how truly out of touch some people are, even with the internet. You couldn't ind a clue if one was shoved right up your butt.

You get a yellow card.
 
WestHartHusk said:
If you can't differentiate the current MLS from the 70's NASL then you are clearly in the deep-end here without any floaties.
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LOL. Maybe he should go teach his kids how to smoke or something.


It's almost like he said: "people will never bother using seat belts".
 
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ZooCougar said:
That makes no sense. Do you have any clue as to how popular soccer is with young males, particular ones with actual bank accounts and vote with their wallets?

Your post is awesome because it shows how truly out of touch some people are, even with the internet. You couldn't ind a clue if one was shoved right up your butt.

You get a yellow card.
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Just as popular as it was 4o years ago and where is it today?
 
bc puckett said:
Just as popular as it was 4o years ago and where is it today?
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I don't know what you bozos in Chestnut Hill have been hearing, but lead paint is bad for you. Just say no.
 
ZooCougar said:
I don't know what you bozos in Chestnut Hill have been hearing, but lead paint is bad for you. Just say no.
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I know it's the standard UConn response but I'm nowhere near Chestnut Hill. All I did was post facts, including concussion info, about soccer in this country over the last 45 plus years and all the little Huskies have to get their balls in a knot.
 
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It would be nice to have less Boston College fans on this board and more fans of teams we actually play.
 
Drew said:
It would be nice to have less Boston College fans on this board and more fans of teams we actually play.
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We have a few BC fans who contribute here that are good. But this child, with all of his/her 15 total posts, needs to spend some time in okielite romper room.
 
Dooley said:
We have a few BC fans who contribute here that are good. But this child, with all of his/her 15 total posts, needs to spend some time in okielite romper room.
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I thought I was ignored? And why is that the only reply you geniuses can come up with when someone disagrees with you is: BC fan. How exactly does a differing opinion on soccer automatically make me a BC fan.

You really need something new because I am not now or have I ever been a BC fan. I'm a life long TCU fan which you might have gathered from the name but I guess that was expecting too much.

Also I'm still waiting for one of you geniuses, not you Dooley since I'm ignored, to actually logically dispute my original post.Hint: this means something other than BC fan. I know it will be difficult but try.
 
I love the World Cup. But a close second is the number of morons who run around for 4 weeks showing how much they care about soccer by constantly hijacking threads about to soccer to try and convince us nobody cares about soccer.

In other news the daytime ratings for games not involving the USA beat the prime time NHL playoffs involving two major maker teams, LA and NYC.
 
Nostical said:
Don't forget socccer coaching great Tony DiCicco is from Connecticut and would be a good choice for a local team. He coached the Womens World Cup winning team with Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain.
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And also coached my club team for 3 years!
 
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WingU-Conn said:
I love the World Cup. But a close second is the number of morons who run around for 4 weeks showing how much they care about soccer by constantly hijacking threads about to soccer to try and convince us nobody cares about soccer.

In other news the daytime ratings for games not involving the USA beat the prime time NHL playoffs involving two major maker teams, LA and NYC.
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I wasn't trying to "convince" you or anyone else that nobody cares about soccer. My point, which you obviously missed, was that the same thing happens every four years and has been forever. Everyone gets into the World Cup, gets excited about soccer, talks about how it's the next big thing, and nothing happens.

Obviously people care and are passionate about it. I certainly wasn't suggesting people shouldn't or didn't watch I just don't ever see a carryover. People get fired up for one month every 4 years then (American) football season starts and it's over.
 
TheDoggPound said:
ESPN's top TV markets for US-Ghana: 1. DC; 2. NYC; 3. Hartford; 4. Boston.; 5. Columbus; 6. Balt; 7. Prov.; 8. Orlando; 9. SF; 10.Norfolk.
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I'm surprised Buffalo isn't there. Buffalo was second highest market for the UEFA Champions League. There are soccer specific bars here. They closed down a four lane road this week because they knew the soccer crowd at one bar, Mes Que, was going to spill out way into the street because of the giant TVs on the sidewalk.
 
junglehusky said:
From a player development perspective, the instruction college soccer is not good at all. Klinsmann has made critical comments about the quality of play, instruction, training, etc in the NCAA, and even before his stint the US Soccer national development concentrated on having our youth propsects target professional contracts with MLS or Europe. I'm sure if a 14 year old kid with tons of talent were scouted by the national team they would be told to only go to college if they were intent on getting the degree and were willing to give up on the opportunity to train and compete at elite club academies in Germany/Italy/England/Holland. And they'd be told that going the college route would put them at some disadvantage when competing for open spots on the USMNT.
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The US development academy, and MLS, are still going about it all wrong. They've put a ton of money into getting youth teams enrolled is US Soccer bankrolled programs, and to amp up the level of instruction, with each MLS team bankrolling several regional soccer clubs which are supposed to be at the highest level, but they are charging so much for such instruction that all they've managed to do is up the level of suburbanite soccer, largely ignoring the immigrant/inner city population. Again.
 
bc puckett said:
I wasn't trying to "convince" you or anyone else that nobody cares about soccer. My point, which you obviously missed, was that the same thing happens every four years and has been forever. Everyone gets into the World Cup, gets excited about soccer, talks about how it's the next big thing, and nothing happens.

Obviously people care and are passionate about it. I certainly wasn't suggesting people shouldn't or didn't watch I just don't ever see a carryover. People get fired up for one month every 4 years then (American) football season starts and it's over.
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I must have missed the post where someone said soccer was going to replace American football.

If arguing against something that nobody ever said means you win then congrats. You can collect your trophy at www.effoff.com
 
WingU-Conn said:
I must have missed the post where someone said soccer was going to replace American football.

If arguing against something that nobody ever said means you win then congrats. You can collect your trophy at www.effoff.com
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It wouldn't be the first thing you missed. I'm sure it happens a lot.
 
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